Just a week earlier, Morales gave a green light to the government’s Truth Commission, which began investigations into the disappearances and violations of human rights during the dictatorships in the nation between 1964 and 1982.

The panel is tasked with gathering information about those who bear civil and criminal responsibility for the abuses. It will study murder cases, forced disappearances, torture and arbitrary arrests registered in Bolivia from Nov. 4, 1964, to Oct.10, 1982.

"We reiterate our commitment to justice for victims of dictatorships," Morales wrote on his official Twitter account.

Many of them were tortured under Operation Condor, an organized program of state-sponsored terror run by South American military dictatorships, which was tacitly supported by the U.S. government in the 1970s and 1980s.